A newly released study by doctors at the University of Pennsylvania shows that kids on Medicaid wait more than twice as long to see specialists compared to children who are covered by private insurance. The truly disconcerting part of this story is that kids on private insurance were found to wait an average of 20 days for an appointment. Though, even that pales in comparison to a denial rate of 66% for public insurance holders at the clinics the researchers contacted.
The solution to this, obviously, is more cuts to Medicaid! Get those poors out of the system completely, and the kids on private insurance might only have to wait two weeks to see the respiratory therapist!
